| oniyide said: of course they dont, which makes it even LESS likely that they would buy another console to play a game that they could already buy for a console that they own. When i say console of choice, im talking the one they own. Which would be their console of choice because they made the choice to buy it. simple |
You forget about the technophiles. Other than internet gaming community members, technophiles are the most likely to preorder games more than four months before release, and are much more likely to buy new hardware at or near launch.
You also forget that this is the first of the next generation of consoles, and thus people are more likely to "upgrade" in general, just as many people "upgraded" from PS2 to one of the current-gen consoles. Otherwise, you'd find that the vast majority of regular people would never buy new consoles, they'd just keep the ones they had - and the industry wouldn't challenge that, because of a massive portion of the market (regular people are the vast majority of the install base) wanting new games and not willing to upgrade unless absolutely necessary. Fortunately, most people do want to upgrade every once in a while. And I think you'd be surprised at how many people out there would want to play CoD with Wiimote controls, but didn't want to miss out on content and graphical quality for it (meaning, not willing to get the Wii versions, lacking in both content and graphics, but more than willing to look at Wii U). Wiimote controls for FPS are so much more intuitive than dual analog.
